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Palestinian human rights activism is not anti-Semitic

Stuart Hertzog — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 05:13:48 +0000

Letters to the Editor Ottawa Jewish Bulletin February 6, 2012

As a Jewish human rights activist, I was disturbed and disappointed by Oliver Javanpour’s November 28 World Affairs column (Is Israeli Apartheid activism creating the next generation of anti-Semites?).

Javanpour refers to “a soup” of Palestinian human rights organizations as “Jew-hating.” [...]

IJV Demands Mainstream Jewish Groups Condemn Israeli Laws

admin — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:57:47 +0000

April 10, 2011

“Israel’s friends tout it as the only democracy in the Middle East. But at a time when democracy is breaking out in countries all over the region, Israel’s Knesset (the country’s parliament) has mounted a legislative attack on the fundamental freedoms of its Arab citizens and Israeli Jews who support them,” declared [...]

National Post and CJC attacks on IJV and Diana Ralph: Rebuttal

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 15:37:52 +0000

by Diana Ralph

Since its inception, IJV has worked in solidarity with the United Church of Canada to promote justice and security for Palestinian and Israeli people. We have worked with United Church congregations to help them implement the UCC resolutions for peace [...]

Response to Lawrence Hart

admin — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 11:15:00 +0000

This is a letter IJV member David Cohen wrote several weeks ago to Canadian Jewish News in response to a column by Lawrence Hart which attacked us. CJN published an edited version of it on July 31, 2008.

To the editor:

Dr. Lawrence Hart needs to be brought up to date. The meeting he writes [...]